Opera 9.5 - Now leaner and meaner!

Opera 9.5 - Now leaner and meaner!

Nikhil Rastogi, Jul 13, 2008 0830 hrs IST

Opera is more than just a browser. It's a browser, email client, rss reader, IRC chat client and newsgroup reader all rolled into a one

Slick, fast, feature-rich, excellent security, not only a browser but also email client, rss reader, IRC chat client, newsgroup reader and bittorrent downloader, Even though being propriety software, Opera is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS.

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Faster than before


In terms of loading pages, Opera has always been the quicker one for some reason. In version 9.5 I was happy to note that this hasn't changed, in fact the engine renders Javascript and HTML faster than version 9.2, at the same time increasing handling speed of third-party plug-ins. This is due to Opera's better support for current Web standards (X)HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1 and
JavaScript.

Opera also supports future standards still under development, such as HTML 5 and CSS 3. In fact, Opera 9.5 is one of the two browsers that passed the new Acid3 browser, the other being Safari which uses WebKit engine.

In spite of saying this, for some reason Acid3 test "Failed" for me showing "83/100" for Opera and "71/100" for Firefox 3. My Firefox 3 has been pimped to quite an extent, so failing that test I can understand that this test needs default settings so that nothing interferes with it, but strangely Opera settings are default and yet the failure? Hope you have better luck. However, don't worry at all if your browser fails these tests, these are synthetic benchmarks to test only rendering capabilities of browsers and not related to security issues, web developers panic!


Opera on acid test


Firefox on acid test

The Acid3 test
http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Simple explanation of Acid3 test on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3

What do the Acid3 tests test?
http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid3/

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by Rajashekar, Sangareddy, on Oct 05, 2008 07:54 PM, Report abuse   Reply

gf

by muthu, trichy, on Aug 25, 2008 07:35 PM, Report abuse   Reply

still keeps restarting my desktop despite having fibre broadband opera still takes long to load the pages

by darrin duckyboo, flooded mumbai, on Jul 22, 2008 08:32 PM, Report abuse   Reply

opera or firfox better

by senuors, cairo, on Jul 15, 2008 12:33 PM, Report abuse   Reply

Opera rocks! Is is one of the most lightest browsers I've ever used. CRISP is what I'd like to call.

by Neo, NY, on Jul 14, 2008 10:17 PM, Report abuse   Reply

One of the problem opera had was with saving the complete web page as seen after it has fully loaded in a browser.firefox does this with ease.dont know if this version can do that.

by sachin, goa, on Jul 13, 2008 11:19 PM, Report abuse   Reply

hey sachin.....opera always had the feature of savin the web pages as u wnt...u jst had to select web page(html) in save as type menu...

by aayush, jaipur, on Jul 14, 2008 09:21 PM, Report abuse

One of the problem opera had was with saving the complete web page as seen after it has fully loaded in a browser.firefox does this with ease.dont know with version.

by sachin, goa, on Jul 13, 2008 11:12 PM, Report abuse   Reply

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